CVE-2022-42721

medium

Description

A list management bug in BSS handling in the mac80211 stack in the Linux kernel 5.1 through 5.19.x before 5.19.16 could be used by local attackers (able to inject WLAN frames) to corrupt a linked list and, in turn, potentially execute code.

References

Advisories
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https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5257

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VNN3VFQPECS6D4PS6ZWD7AFXTOSJDSSR/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/S2KTU5LFZNQS7YNGE56MT46VHMXL3DD2/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GGHENNMLCWIQV2LLA56BJNFIUZ7WB4IY/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00001.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1204060

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/169951/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0090-1.html

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230203-0008/

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless.git/commit/?id=bcca852027e5878aec911a347407ecc88d6fff7f

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/10/13/5

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-10-14

Updated: 2025-05-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H